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say it: vuh-LAW-suh-rap-tur
velociraptor is a noun meaning "small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs". It is pronounced /vəˈlɔsəˌɹæptɚ/ — vuh-LAW-suh-rap-tur. It carries one recorded sense.
small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for velociraptor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.